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Sketch of the Champion—The Great Battle Between Kileain and Smith— Official Kepoet of the Kileain-Smith Mill—Peess and Othee Comments on the Fight—Oeigin of the Geeat Inteenational Fight Between Kil- eain and Smith—Jake Kileain at Home—Good Stoey Regaeding the Champion. PORTRAITS. Jake Kileain, the Champion—Richaed K. Fox, Kileain's Backee—Wm. E. Habd- ing, Spoeting Editoe Police Gazette—Chaeley Mitchell, Kileain's Second—James Smith, the English Boxee—John Fleming, Editoe London Spoetsman—Geo. W. Atkinson, Editoe London Spoeting Life—Chaeley Rowell, Kileain's Bottle Holdee—Peof. Ned Donnelly, Kileain's Teainee—Aethue Coopee, Smith's Backee—Jack Haepee, Smith's Second— J. Howes, Smith's Second—John Peecival, Smith's Backee—Dan M'Cannon, Smith's Old Second—Chaeley White, Well Known English Spoetsman. ILLUSTRATIONS. Jake Kileain's Fac Simile Receipt to the London Spoeting Life foe £1,000, Amount of Stakes Deposited by Richaed K. Fox—Oeiginal Deaft of £200 Fuenished Kileain by Richaed K. Fox Theough Beown Beos. & Co., Lon- don, to Use in Betting on Himself in the Ring—Me. Fox's Fac Simile En- doeseMent on the Back—The Police Gazette Diamond Belt—The Cham- pion's Coloes—Jem Smith's Coloes—Mitchell Smashes Baldock—A Teeeible Round—The Englishman Gets Downed Again -Kileain's CJndee Cut—In Smith's Coenee—Jake Always on Top - Ceoss Buttock—Close Fighting—Kil- eain CONGEATULATED AFTEE THE FlGHT—SMITH BADLY DONE Up AT THE END OF the Steuggle—The Moening Aftee the Battle—They Have a Smile Toge- thee on boaed of the vessel—putting on the gloves with papa—tbainhw3- with Muephy—Kileain, Je., Theows the Ball—Jake as a Dog Fancier. ad : JAKE KILRAIN'S LIFE AND BATTLES. SKETCH OF THE CHAMPION. Jake Kilrain, the American champion, who fought Jem Smith for $10,000, the •"Police Gazette "diamond belt and championship of the world, stands 5 feet 10^ inches high, and weighs 210 pounds. His chest measurement is 41 inches, upon and around the biceps 16 inches, forearm 14 inches, waist 34 inches, thigh 25 inches, calf of leg 16)4 inches. He wears a No 9 shoe and No. 9 glove, and it takes a 17 inch collar to encircle his neck. Kilrain gives the following interesting history of his life " My name is Joseph John Killion. When I was a lad my comrades persisted in call- ing me Kilrain, and the name has stuck to me ever since, so I have bowed to the in- evitable, and now write my name 'Kilrain.' I was born at Greenport, Columbia county, which is in the State of New York, and the date of my nativity is the 9th of February, 1859, so that I am twenty-eight years of age. I have no regular occupation other than training athletes and boxing, but in my younger days I worked in a rolling mill in Somerville, Mass., which is a suburb of Boston. It was here that I developed a love for athletic sports. In fact they were forced upon me, for in such a large estab- lishment it was not to be wondered at that there were many good boxers, and as I was a gawky country boy, I was a mark for ail their practical jokes. Sometimes they went too far, and when I remonstrated they laughed at me. You can bet that made me mad, so I just made up my mind that I would thrash one or two of these tormentors, and from that day I was champion of the mill. "The first customer was Jack Daley, who had fought several small ring battles, but I put him to sleep in short order. My next encounter was with Jem Driscoll, a regular giant, who, while having little or no science, could hit with the force of a trip hammer. He hurt me very badly, but I finally wore him down, and when he at last gave up his mother would scarcely have known him. I next fought Dan Dwyer. It was a long and bloody fight, but I finally managed to pull through a winner. I was very sore for a long time and thought I was internally injured. 1 he last man that was pitted against me was Dennis Roach. He had been imported to the mill with the idea of putting an end to young Kilrain's run of luck, and they came near doing so, too. I was not very well when the day for the fight arrived, but knowing full well that I should have been branded as a coward if 1 backed out, I got into the ring determined to stand up as long as I was able. My antagonist was a hurricane fighter, and sought to annihilate me in a couple of rounds. He hit me in the stomach several times, and I thought that I must give in, but after a little while Roach's blows got weaker, and finding he could not hurt me much, I fought with him, and by a judicious use of my left hand managed to close up his eyes. Roach was willing to keep on fighting, although he could not see. Finally his friends took him away, and that ended my fighting career in the mill." He took to rowing, and was one of the winning crew in a four-oared race on Lake Waldron. This appeared to whet Kilrain's appetite for boating, and in 1883 we find him competing successfully for the Junior sculling championship at the Nati nal Amateur Regatta, held at Newark, N. J. Of course, when President Garfield, of the National Association, learned the identity of " Killion," and discovered him to be a pro- fessional pugilist, he at once took steps for an investigation, and Mr. "Killion" and JAKE KILRAIN'S LIFE AND BATTLES. Mr. Kilrain ceased to be an amateur oarsman. His next appearance in a racing boat was on the Charles Kiver, when he was one of a four-oared Hull boat crew. They rowed against the Middlesex and Kiverside crews, and beat them both. A few weeks later on he formed part of a four-oared crew which rowed in the Union Boat Club regatta on the Charles Eiver, and won the prize. The same crew was one of the entries in the Fourth of July regatta of 1883, but suffered defeat, rowing second to the Middlesex crew, which was accounted one of the best amateur fours. " In the winter of 1883 I launched out as a down-right professional pugilist. I ob- tained a situation in the Boston Cribb Club, where I was assistant to Jem M'Carthy. Here I got more hard knocks than wealth, but I gained a good deal of experience. While employed in the Cribb Club I was called upon to face some good men.
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